Description: Thomas Nightingale opened a brick yard in Port Credit in the 1880s on the west side of the Credit River. (The Texaco Refinery would later be situated on that site.) Some years later a stonecrusher was installed which increased the output of bricks. After 1900, because of a scarcity of labour, European immigrants, many of them Italians, were encouraged to work in the Port Credit brick yard where bunk houses were built to house them. After World War I the brick yard began to operate at a loss and was eventually closed down in the 1920s. The photo, taken in 1907, includes Mr. Transom (head burner) and Arthur G. Bradley.